10. V. 98.

Dear Sir Semyon Mikheyevich!

I hasten to inform you, in keeping with my promise, of the results of my negotiations with the person to whom you wished to give a certain commission. As I anticipated, this person refused it in exactly the same way, and you will consequently have to turn to someone else.

At your service

Vladimir Ulyanov

P. S. I would be very glad if, during your visits to the village of Shushenskoye, you would occasionally look in on us.

in the village of Ermakоvskoye

in the journal

Sent from the village of Shushenskoye

First published in 1929

*Proletarskaya Revolutsiya* No. 1

Printed from the manuscript